Palantir is very secretive about what they do but when you look into the CEO, he has no tech or math background.
Are they just middlemen orchestrating deals? Whenever they are asked what they do, they name-drop and talk in riddles, "US Military, CIA, FBI" etc, but zero actual evidence they provide any solutions in the space or have deep industry knowledge.
I just find it impossible for a philosophy major to lead actual talent (I know, because I have a tech company)…… or better yet, take the Chinese on. The Chinese dont cherish autistic dropouts like we do here in the US.
How does one lead an industry they have no qualified education in?
Why does the Palantir CEO talk in riddles? Is it to hide they dont have industry knowledge?
byu/Heidi_PB inEntrepreneur
Posted by Heidi_PB
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i don’t think the problem is a philosophy degree. I think the main issue is that consulting companies make their money from being name dropped when a major power like the military or some big business makes a pivotal decision. They’re in the business of being yes men
As someone who’s seen their hospital software, which is absolutely complete dogshit, I don’t think they have much talent. I’d say they are borderline a fraud.
Yeah we had a call with them too. Still don’t know what they do.
This is dumb. As much as you may dislike Palantir or not believe it deserves its current valuation, it has a pretty clearly delineated purpose and function and utility that is apparent if you even Google it for like 2 minutes. Pretending the CEO who literally runs the organization somehow doesn’t know what his company does is just asinine.
Some of the smartest engineers and leaders I’ve worked with are philosophy majors. It gives them a background in critical thinking, and all job functions in tech can be learned outside of university. I’d be worried that anyone thinks the choice of major is a limiting factor – have you stopped learning?
What would concern me is that a philosophy background allows the CEO to convince himself that whatever they’re doing is ethical.
You should make it a habit to check the financials pages for any public company you want to learn about.
Public companies can’t hide their business and financials – their stocks won’t sell if they do that.
Palantir is a public company so it’s all here. All the financials, like the fact that their commercial sector is growing twice as fast as their government sector, their deals with nuclear companies, etc.
https://investors.palantir.com/
It’s simple – because those who pay for their services know what they’re buying – a global hi-tech SaaaS (Spying AI as a Service) – and the rest don’t really matter.
It’s a CIA asset, surely.
Tecnological know how and math are not the key skills required to grow a company to the size of Palantir. It is however, what people want to believe is correlated with success, especially if you possess those skills and have an unsucessful company.
Palantir provides incredible solutions, but most of their deployments are in highly classified domains, which they can’t even leak to the public.
Qualified Education these days means almost nothing – it means you went to school and did the time/paid the fees to get your credentials. It has very little to do with actually being able to accomplish anything in life – the last 20 years of building/growing Palantir into what it is today could never be taught in a school – but it is why the CEO is the CEO and why he’s actually able to lead the team.
Because he’s a racist asshole
someone has zero idea what a CEO does
He is a Zionist enough said
I’m sure there is something else behind it too, but guaranteed any work done for US military and the like is covered head to toe in NDAs